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A fine barn of the same date and with massive timber adjoins 

 the hall. The house and farm accounts are well worthy of 

 examination, and it is interesting to note that the workmen were 

 paid after the rate of Id. per day, while the architect received 6d. 

 per day. Being erected at one time and without interim, the 

 work is in harmony thi'oughout, and is a fine specimen of 

 domestic architecture well worthy of close study. 



Gawthorpe has been the seat of the Shuttleworths since the 

 43rd year of Edward III, when Agnes, daughter of William de 

 Hacking, conveyed it to her husband, Ughtred, son of Henry de 

 Shuttleworth. From him the estate descended uninterruptedly 

 to Eobert Shuttleworth, of Barbon Lodge, who died 1816. He 

 left it to his second son, Eobert Shuttleworth, Barrister-at-law, 

 who died in 1818, devising the estates to his only child, Janet, 

 then under one year old. In 1842 she married James Phillip 

 Kay, M.D., who upon his marriage assumed the surname and 

 arms of Shuttleworth. He died in 1877, and his son, the Et. Hon. 

 Sir Ughtred James Kay- Shuttleworth, is now the present owner 

 and occupier. 



HuESTWOOD. 



TattersalVs Rouse. This building is one of the oldest in the 

 neighbourhood, though there is no date upon it. It is built 

 entirely of millstone grit, the remains of the old fireplace are 

 still extant, but modernized. The entrance door-case differs 

 from many of the halls in the neighbourhood by having a semi- 

 circular top, which is the characteristic of the Norman period. 

 The mullioned windows have square heads, double moulded, and 

 the interior has the characteristic massive oak beams and joists. 

 The position is extremely fine, giving a good view of the Eock 

 Glen. The Tattersalls were in possession of the estate in 1389, 

 when Peter Tattersall also held Holme. The present represent- 

 ative is Edmund Tattersall, Esq., of Albert Gate, London, the 

 celebrated Auctioneer. 



Spencer's House. This hall is situated mid way between Tatter- 

 sail's and Hurstwood HaU. There is no date on the building, 

 but the similarity of style in the shape of the windows, and 

 the porch being similar to that at Danes House (except in the 

 roof which has a lean-to instead of the gable of the latter) 

 points to the date of its erection as being early in the 16th 

 century, and the records of that time shew that it was then in 

 the possession of the Spencer family. In plan it somewhat 

 differs from the prevailing type, as the porch abuts on the kitchen 

 wing though projecting beyond it. The door-case has the four- 

 centred Tudor arch, and the windows are square and circular 

 headed, intermixed some with single and some with double 

 mouldings. Tradition states that it was here the poet Spencer 

 resided when in this district, and that seated on a high mound at 



